TRACKLAYING at the new Lodz Fabryczna station is well underway with 2km of the required 12.5km of track now in place for the station, which is set to become the hub of regional and long-distance railway services in the Polish city and a key interchange in the proposed Warsaw - Lodz - Poznan Y line high-speed network.
A SIX-YEAR project by Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) to reconstruct Salzburg main station was officially completed on November 7 at a cost of €250m.
MTR has a global reputation for operating highly efficient metro services. But how much consideration is given to station design when attempting to move large numbers of passengers effectively? Kevin Smith spoke with MTR's chief architect Andrew Mead and architectural manager - design Anthony Wong to find out.
China has built the world's largest high-speed rail network in less than a decade and construction costs for high-speed lines are now as much as a third lower than in other countries. Gerald Ollivier, Jitendra Sondhri and Nanyan Zhou from the World Bank's Beijing office explain how China continues to develop a world-class system with world-beating unit costs.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) will spend around SFr 1.5bn ($US 1.66bn) on revamping stations, modernising infrastructure and acquiring new rolling stock for Ticino, Switzerland's southernmost canton by 2020.
THE Dutch government has approved funding to increase capacity at Amsterdam Central station and given the go-ahead for electrification and upgrading of the Nijmegen – Roermond line.
QUEEN Elizabeth II today officially opened the rebuilt and expanded Reading station, a major bottleneck on Britain's railway network.
THE CEO of German Rail (DB) Dr Rüdiger Grube has opened what DB claims to be Europe's first CO2-free station at Kerpen-Horrem, between Cologne and Aachen.
RESIDENTS of South Sumatra are celebrating the opening of 11 new stations and the completion of a 22km track-doubling project from Prabumulih to Niru, which will improve capacity for freight and passenger services in operator PT Kereta Api's Regional Division III South.
THE European Investment Bank has granted a €268m loan to Poland's infrastructure manager, PKP PLK, to rehabilitate a 58km section of the 78km main line linking Katowice with Kraków.